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KEY PERIOD 5 11. 2 -11. 3 JASMINE JACKSON NYRUS ABDULLE STEPHANIE PEREZ ASONTAE OWENS AYO BANJO
11. 2 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ● Sold more than 300, 000 copies in its first year of publication ● Used vivid character developement to illustrate antislavery themes ● Written to educated Americans on the cruelty of slavery ● SUMMARY: Cousins Augustine St. Claire(Slave owner) and Ophelia (Abolitionist) discuss the establishment
HIPPOS • H: (1811 -1896) Published in the north by Harriet Beecher Stowe • I: The intended audience are fellow abolitionists, slave owners, and the American Population to demonstrates • P: The purpose is to portray the cruelty of slavery was • P: The authors point of view derives from his standpoint based on being an abolitionist and • O: This depiction is taken place in the north where slavery is already abolished yet Miss. Ophelid participates in the slavery. • S: This novel had a huge impact on American because of the newly found regional conflict between the North (widened abolitionist group) and the South
11. 3 AUNT PHILLIS’S CABIN
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ● Written as a rebuttal to Uncle Tom’s Cabin ● Sold from 20, 000 -30, 000 copies within the first year ● Focused on the positive factors of slavery ● SUMMARY: Southern Arthur Weston discusses the “institiution” of slavery with Yale student Abel Johnson in New Haven, Connecticut (One of the cruelest slaves areas)
HIPPOS • H: Active through (1818 -1887) in the south, written by Mary Henderson Eastman, Published in 1852. Mary was appalled by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book. This is her reaction. • I: The intended audience is whoever wants to know about slavery in the North to clarify the negative facts stated in Uncle Tom’s Cabin • P: Henderson’s main purpose throughout the piece is to display the uncruel details of slavery to the unfamiliar. • P: Her point of view remains pro slavery by stating the more pleasant details in order to get the audience to understand the purpose. • O: The occasion was before the Civil War era, going against newly abolitionist causing the battle to have slavery remain active. • S: Although this novel was extremely successful; Uncle Tom’s cabin was able to sell about 275, 000 more copies within the first year being published.